The Most Common Passwords Of 2016 Might Surprise You

January 21, 2017

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The Most Common Passwords Of 2016 Might Surprise You

Here are the most common passwords of the year 2016. Keeper had gathered the passwords by looking at 10 million passwords that were made public following few data breaches in 2016.

The Most Common Passwords Of 2016 Might Surprise You

We are already in 2017, and if we talk about security, then it will be good to hope that we’ll get a bit wiser, too. According to a new survey from password manager and digital vault company Keeper, the 2016’s most common passwords will shock you!

Keeper has revealed , and once again the reports don’t seem to be on the safe side regarding security. The numeric combination of ‘123456’ was the most common password of 2016.

Keeper had gathered the password by looking at 10 million passwords that were made public following few data breaches in 2016. Previous year 123456 was used by nearly one in five users.

The reports from Keeper also states that four of top 10 passwords on the list consists of six characters or shorter, passwords like ‘12345678’, ‘111111’, ‘1234567890’, ‘1234567’, ‘password’, ‘123123’, ‘987654321’ are among the top ten list.

According to Keeper Security “This is stunning in light of the fact that, as we have reported, today’s brute-force cracking software and hardware can unscramble those passwords in seconds, Website operators that permit such flimsy protection are either reckless or lazy,”

“Nearly 17 percent of users are safeguarding their accounts with ‘123456’. What perplexed us is that so many website operators are not enforcing password security best practices,”

Have a Look At The Top 25 Most Common Passwords Of 2016:

1. 123456
2. 123456789
3. qwerty
4. 12345678
5. 111111
6. 1234567890
7. 1234567
8. password
9. 123123
10. 987654321
11. qwertyuiop
12. mynoob
13. 123321
14. 666666
15. 18atcskd2w
16. 7777777
17. 1q2w3e4r
18. 654321
19. 555555
20. 3rjs1la7qe
21. google
22. 1q2w3e4r5t
23. 123qwe
24. zxcvbnm
25. 1q2w3e

So wise up, friends, and make your passwords tough. Don’t let your account compromised because of a poor password choice. You can follow our article How To Create A Super Secure Password To Defeat Hacker to know how you can put up a secure password.

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